Takis Spyridakis

Takis Panagiotis Spyridakis Greek Τάκης Παναγιώτης Σπυριδάκης Aegina 4 February 1958 Athens 14 September 2019 was a Greek film theatre and television actor director and screenwriter Takis Spyridakis was born in Aegina and grew up in Piraeus where he also went to school He worked in various jobs from a young age he went to night school He often watched films but without initially being oriented towards the acting profession He studied at the Drama School of the National Theatre which he abandoned shortly before the end He has participated in 13 films while his directorial debut was in 1994 with the film The Garden of God for which he also wrote the screenplay The film was awarded 7 state quality awards at the Thessaloniki Film Festival Spyridakis first appeared on the big screen playing one of the protagonists in the film Sweet Gang directed by Nikos Nikolaidis 1983 For his performance he won the special performance award at the Thessaloniki Film Festival that same year His second participation was also noteworthy in Nikos Perakiss Loufa and Variation 1984 This was followed by Morning Patrol Nikos Nikolaidis 1986 Family Protector Nikos Perakis 1997 This Night Stays Nikos Panagiotopoulos 1999 Black Milk Nikos Triantafyllidis 1999 No One Loses in Everything Dionysis Grigoratos 2000 Cheap Cigarettes Renos Charalambidis 2000 Im Tired of Killing Your Loved Ones Nikos Panagiotopoulos 2002 Loofah and Disguise Sirens in the Aegean Nikos Perakis 2005 Isovites Theodoros Maragos 2008 and 4 Black Suits Renos Charalambidis 2009 In 1989 Spyridakis wrote and directed the short film Vera Cruz which won the 1st prize for best film at the corresponding Festival was honored by the Ministry of Culture and was awarded by the National Film Center of France in 1990 For the last four years he has starred in the theater in the play Agrios Sporos by Yannis Tsiros at the Epi Kolono theater directed by Eleni Skoti He also participated in commercials for a mobile phone company in which he played the president of a football team